Novel, Novella (was Re: Re: I'm new!)

On 22 Oct, John Cowan wrote:

>On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, daniel andreasson wrote:
>
>> In Swedish, a short story is called 'novell' and a novel is
>> called "roman". Confusing, isn't it? :)
>
>Hmm, a little German influence here, I suppose?  But the word "novella"
>is current in English, though not as well known as "short story" or
>"novel".
>
       In Israeli Hebrew,  a novel is also called "roman".
But, in addition, the word also means "to have a passionate
(although _not_  necessarily adulterous) affair with someone.
As in, "Have you heard? X is having a "roman" with Y!"
    "Novella", over here, is currently associated with the
endless Spanish-language soap operas, called "tele-novellas",
 which we're now getting on our TVs. ( My son thinks it's a great
way to learn Spanish, although I sometimes wonder what kind of
a vocabulary he's picking up! ;-)  )

Dan Sulani

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